Set against the backdrop of the Cold War in an alternate 1985, Watchmen is the complex story of a group of half a dozen costumed vigilantes who go by names like Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) and Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman). The film opens with the murder of one of the costumed vigilantes, and someone may be trying to kill all of them. Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup) is the only character with superpowers, which he got because of a nuclear accident. Adapted from the acclaimed graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.